Eric Parslow

One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater than the distance from 3 million to 5 million.
- Eric Parslow

Olivia Ross

“Homework is continuous, but my brain is discrete.”
- Olivia Ross (2007)

Charles Dudley Warner

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Charles Dudley Warner

Dr. Micah Sadigh

"Existence is synonymous with purpose."
- Dr. Micah Sadigh

Goethe

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
- Goethe

Buddha

All tremble at punishment. Life is dear to all. Put yourself in the place of others; kill none nor have another killed.
- Buddha

Tao Te Ching

When you look for it, there is nothing to see. When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. When you use it, it is inexhaustible.
- Tao Te Ching

H. L. Mencken

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
- H. L. Mencken

Charles Schultz

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
- Charles Schultz

Chinese Proverb

Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
- Chinese Proverb

George Winters

"If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport."
- George Winters

Bill Cosby

I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
- Bill Cosby

Charles Bukowski

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
- Charles Bukowski

Harry Shearer

"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
- Harry Shearer

Margot Fonteyn

“Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.”
- Margot Fonteyn

George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw

Henry Ford

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.
- Henry Ford

Max Beerbohm

"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men."
- Max Beerbohm

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

John A. Wheeler

“If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.”
- John A. Wheeler (1911 - 2008)

Neil Armstrong

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

Randy K. Milholland

"Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later."
- Randy K. Milholland

François Marie Arouet Voltaire

Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and need.
- François Marie Arouet Voltaire

Helen Hayes

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."
- Helen Hayes

Deepak Chopra

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
- Deepak Chopra

C. S. Lewis

Books on psychology or economics or politics are as continuously metaphorical as books of poetry or devotion.
- C. S. Lewis

Albert Einstein

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Terry Pratchett

“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. ”
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (1948 -)

Mignon McLaughlin

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Henry Waldorf Francis

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
- Henry Waldorf Francis

Mark Twain

Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him...
- Mark Twain